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Thats a dumb comparison. Gandalf didnt make gimli nor does he control him, and how is passing a message the same as literally carrying the ring into the fire?.. fighting off nazgul?
I guess some people will just never get it and we can keep the meme alive.
Eagles fought at the battle of 5 armies!
If they got involved for a minor events, they could have gotten involved for an important event. Surely those at the council, having known about the Eagles at the battle a few decades earlier, would have suggested it.
Again the problem is that no reason was given despite the Hobbit showing it was a possibility.
"The Eagles appeared in great numbers at the Battle of the Morannon, helping to fight against the Nazgûl."
https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Eagles#:~:text=The%20Great%20Eagle%20became%20known,to%20fight%20against%20the%20Nazg%C3%BBl.
How does that even make sense... They were not allowed to interfere in important ways directly against Sauron or Morgoth
In The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien (Letter #156), Tolkien explains the Valar's diminished role during the Third Age:
It's cute you know how to google for the answer you wanted. Nowhere in the book does it say that. The eagles only fought the zagul at the end in the movies.
Even in your link the reference they give for that paragraph doesn't contain that info. As the eagles arrived the zagul were destroyed by Frodo destroying the ring.
The eagles never attacked the nazgul to help frodo, nor were the five armies involved with the ring or sauron, nor was them helping the dwarves a pivotal moment for the survival of middle earth.
Return of the King chapter 4.
"The Eagles are coming! And many voices answered crying: The Eagles are coming! The Eagles are coming! The hosts of Mordor looked up and wondered what this sign might mean. There came Gwaihir the Windlord, and Landroval his brother, greatest of all the Eagles of the North, mightiest of the descendants of old Thorondor, who built his eyries in the inaccessible peaks of the Encircling Mountains when Middle-earth was young. Behind them in long swift lines came all their vassals from the northern mountains, speeding on a gathering wind. Straight down upon the Nazgûl they bore, stooping suddenly out of the high airs, and the rush of their wide wings as they passed over was like a gale."
The Necromancer in the Hobbit was Sauron. The Goblin army that the Eagles fought was Sauron's
https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Letter_19